How do I reset a mini dell to Original setting?

[Catherine M]

Hi there, I hope that someone could help me, I bought my daughter a second hand mini dell from ebay in October for christmas, I put it away for safe keeping.
I went to restart it and there is a password on it from the previous owner, all the cd's were sent with the mini dell, but it has not got a drive on it could someone tell me how i ca restore this ASAP
I can not contact the previous owner as I have no details for them because of the time I bought it.
I hope someone cud help me please

[Nitika]

Hello, I am Nitika from the Dell Social Media outreach team.

As its a Mini system which doesnot have DVD Drive.

As you have already mentioned that ther is a password on your system so we cant even go to factory image but plesae dont worry ,
If you can arrange an external drive then we can reinstall the Operating System with the help of OS DVD which you recieved with the system.

I would also suggest you to take the data back up of your system.


If in case you do face any challenges in the process, please feel free to contact me directly by sending me an email or by through a reply to this blog.

We would recommend you do not post your private information on a public forum.

Thanks & Regards
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